Hey all , just introducing myself , my wife & I live in Conyers , and love our multiple tanks and all the diversity that comes along with keeping fw &sw aquariums.
Rite now my newest project is a 12G flat back hex tank (acrylic) with a 1g hob fuge , its got a little over a lb of live rock per gallon so after the live sand and rock my total water volume is about 8.5g , I'm not using a protein skimmer because its just tooo small to be efficient.
Lighting the fuge is 9x.20w white 6,500L led positioned to shine through the front side of the fuge so not to grow algae on my aquarium , I think it should grow micro algae just fine.
Lighting the tank I have a clip on led 6x3w led 4w12,000&2 blue456 with 60Degree focus lenses to keep scatter down.
I realize that doesn't seem like a lot , but the tanks depth is only 12" and the few coral I have thus far are sitting on live rock so some things are 7-8" away its more than sufficient.
The inhabitants are a clown goby , an oc clown , a tiger pistol shrimp , 2 sexy shrimp 2 turbo snails, a 3"x4" zoanthia
A riccordia mushroom and 3 small dime size mushrooms that aren't attached that a friend gave me yesterday 2xblue , 1xred I'm trying to decide if the place they are located in to much light (only time will tell)
The only issue I seem to have is lack of micro algae , iv been to blue planet 3 weeks now in a row , all the petco's I'm aware of usually only have a clump or 2 of gracilaria which looks ok but isn't my first choice in my fuge , I called
premier aquatics and they were out , what happened to being able to go to the LfS and getting a cup full for 2-3$ I found some on ebay , a golfball size piece for 12$ seems a little steep for algae.
If anyone needs to trim there cheato soon please inform me or if you know of a fs in the metro that has some please share the information , Thankyou for your help .
I'm looking forward to future posts.
Rite now my newest project is a 12G flat back hex tank (acrylic) with a 1g hob fuge , its got a little over a lb of live rock per gallon so after the live sand and rock my total water volume is about 8.5g , I'm not using a protein skimmer because its just tooo small to be efficient.
Lighting the fuge is 9x.20w white 6,500L led positioned to shine through the front side of the fuge so not to grow algae on my aquarium , I think it should grow micro algae just fine.
Lighting the tank I have a clip on led 6x3w led 4w12,000&2 blue456 with 60Degree focus lenses to keep scatter down.
I realize that doesn't seem like a lot , but the tanks depth is only 12" and the few coral I have thus far are sitting on live rock so some things are 7-8" away its more than sufficient.
The inhabitants are a clown goby , an oc clown , a tiger pistol shrimp , 2 sexy shrimp 2 turbo snails, a 3"x4" zoanthia
A riccordia mushroom and 3 small dime size mushrooms that aren't attached that a friend gave me yesterday 2xblue , 1xred I'm trying to decide if the place they are located in to much light (only time will tell)
The only issue I seem to have is lack of micro algae , iv been to blue planet 3 weeks now in a row , all the petco's I'm aware of usually only have a clump or 2 of gracilaria which looks ok but isn't my first choice in my fuge , I called
premier aquatics and they were out , what happened to being able to go to the LfS and getting a cup full for 2-3$ I found some on ebay , a golfball size piece for 12$ seems a little steep for algae.
If anyone needs to trim there cheato soon please inform me or if you know of a fs in the metro that has some please share the information , Thankyou for your help .
I'm looking forward to future posts.
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